Animation Program Primer - Part 1

Here is list of exercises for those of you who want to get a head start on learning the basics of animation, character design, layout, and story-boarding. Cheers!

Animation

Try to complete one assignment a week:

1. Ball Bounce


2. Bowling Ball Bounce


3. Different Types of Balls


4. Balloon & String

-          All the basic principles of animation can be learned with these: Squash and Stretch, Timing, Spacing, Primary and Secondary Action

1. Seaweed/Book Page Turn


2. Marine Animal


3. Ball & tail

-          These focus on overlap, action, s-curve and c-curve
-          Study the tails of animals and look for student work online

1. Walk Cycle - Do 3 different walks with the same character, each with different personality, weight, or movements in them


2. Animal Walk Cycle


3. Head turn


4. Expressions


5. Dialogue

-          This is where you can really begin to play with personality. Choose one character of your own design or from http://livlily.blogspot.ca/
-          Study the walk cycles in animated movies, and how personality is shown in the movement

• Josh suggests: 101 Dalmatians, and the Intro of Robin Hood